woooooooooooow…amazing....great news, these are the coolest pops to be released in a while, brook was great, but was expected these are just.....wow. really looking forward to them...april release maybe?
One Piece Collectibles v.2
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Is it just me, or is Aokiji's mask… colorless? Isn't it suppose to be green or something? I like that in the display they have Franky holding the brown bottle in his hand, like I've always displayed him.
Closeups from Jump FESTA, no, not of the POPs. But of the UC Part 2 figures (or statues I guess, doesn't seem like they move) and Treasure Gate re-colors:
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I can't wait to get that Mihawk one i've been waiting for a Mihawk POP release for a long time.
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Is it just me, or is Aokiji's mask… colorless? Isn't it suppose to be green or something? I like that in the display they have Franky holding the brown bottle in his hand, like I've always displayed him.
Closeups from Jump FESTA, no, not of the POPs. But of the UC Part 2 figures (or statues I guess, doesn't seem like they move) and Treasure Gate re-colors:
[qimg]http://img218.imageshack.us/img218/1073/81522672av6.jpg[/qimg]
Doesn't seem like anyone got any closeup shots of the POPs.Ooh now that's interesting. I didn't realise there was a re-colour of Luffy. As far as I was aware it was just Nami and Robin. (and they didn't have shiny golden bases. Just light blue.)
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GREAT…Just got my payment request for "Blook" and Lucci....>_>
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You should have a second email where it's spelled "Brook". Least that's how it was for me. I can't pay for him, so I guess HLJ will cancel him along with all my preorders. Also, I think HLJ SAL shipping has finally failed me. A small figure (Eureka Voice-I Doll) was sent out on November 27th… Still not here. Now, maybe it's the Christmas rush, but I've gotten other packages from HLJ around this time with pretty much the same shipping time, and they were larger.
Longest I've ever waited for something was 18 days, which was a large package containing both the Zoro and Bon Kurei POPs. Shortest was Luffy POP, which got here in an outstanding 6 days. If it really did get lost, fuck as I have the partner to it, but all in all it was only $15 out of my pocket. Better that than a POP.
Hopefully my Smoker gets here soon.
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i just received my smoker and bellemere from hlj in just under 30 days buuhan, so no worries
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Thanks, that does give me a bit more faith.
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It's Christmas rush because I haven't got my Smoker/Ace/Namiv1 and others yet and they shipped around the same time as yours.Oh, and both emails say Blook.
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search for one piece styling nami boxart packing scans
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im guessing the more you order the longer it takes, cos my restock smoker came really quick! Though i was one of the first few here to get a payment invoice it seemed.
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You should have a second email where it's spelled "Brook". Least that's how it was for me. I can't pay for him, so I guess HLJ will cancel him along with all my preorders. Also, I think HLJ SAL shipping has finally failed me. A small figure (Eureka Voice-I Doll) was sent out on November 27th… Still not here. Now, maybe it's the Christmas rush, but I've gotten other packages from HLJ around this time with pretty much the same shipping time, and they were larger.
Does HLJ always cancel all your preorders when you request to cancel items that are waiting to be paid for through paypal. I'm thinking of doing that for the Nami and Bulma crossovers i got a payment request for.
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i wonder if anybody receive hlj payment request for merry go ship?
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Are these Banpresto repaint versions of the Super DX Thousand Sunny and Going Merry confirmed and official?
http://www.toyslogic.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=588_216_314&products_id=7484
http://www.toyslogic.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=588_216_314&products_id=7483Release date says May 31, 2009, but their release dates seem to be a few weeks later. They also mistyped Going Merry as Thousand Merry (I sent them a message letting them know).
I like the repaint of Going Merry better, if it turns out to be the "real" thing, but can't seem to find these on any other sites that I searched.
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I haven't gotten my payment request for them. But hey, we finally get pictures. They look exactly like they did in the showcase.
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More photos from Jump Festa. Aokiji and Mihawk in May 2009:
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Buuhan1, back in the summer when I placed an order on the Mild POP of Nico Robin, I chose SAL shipping and it took over a month to get here. I got worried too, but it did arrive. Just give it a little more time.
Those pictures of Nami and Bulma look great, by the way.
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Oh God, those two pops look fantastic… Also, Mihawks sword looks plenty long in that photo. Maybe it matters with the angle.
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…up close, Aokiji's face looks like crap. Maybe it's just me, but it looks like they tried to make him look more like Yusaku Matsuda than Kuzan. And what's up with the hair?
Mihawk, on the other hand, looks fantastic
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Yes, I agree. His face is pretty off. As for his hair, I see no real problem. It only looks off because in both the manga and anime it's colored solid black, so you don't really see how it really is, like you do here.
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yeah mihawks sword does look a lot longer in that photo than it did in the other one, i think there both really good figures, im getting them! im not too fussy with small detail.
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I have new appreciation for my Zoro POP. I already loved him, but how I had my shelve set up was, they were in order of joining, but for them all to fit they were put in this order:
…...Zoro.....Sanji...........Franky..Bon Kurei
Luffy.....Nami.....Nami v.2----------------Zoro was in the very back corner, and often very out of view, I've had this set up for awhile now. Well, I decided to take everything off the shelve to dust them all off (my POPs were DUSTY! I never thought things like this get dusty, just the base, but I was wrong.) When I took out Zoro, I got another good look at him after awhile and realize just how awesome he is. So, I completely re-organized the shelve, now its:
Sanji....Nami v.2....Franky...Bon Kurei
Zoro.......Luffy.......Nami------------So now Sanji is in the position Zoro was in, but better. he's not that much in the corner due to me changing my OP volumes and Movie 8 DVD to beside him when they were beside Bon Kurei.
So yeah, collecting stuff is grand, but the high of having something quickly runs out, but decide to randomly pay attention to something in your collection after awhile, especially if you don't acknowledge it much. You may suddenly be joyous with something you've already had for awhile again.
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God Bless the-e awesome people who took closeups of POPs _
What do you mean his face is off? His face is nuuuuuuuuuughh <3 And he IS suppousted to be Matsuda if you didn`t know~
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I'm so getting both of them ! But I still think that Mihawk sword is quite short compared to what it' supposed to be.
Anybody can confirm that Banpresto will make a v2 for both boats ? Bandai already did it with 5-block-Sunny, regular and DX version. Bandai made this to "welcome" Brook. But I don't understand why Banpresto would do the same… -
No, he is not suppose to be anyone besides Aokiji. Yes, Oda got his inspiration from an actor, but that's not who Aokiji is. Aokiji is Aokiji. Oda draws him a certain way, and I too feel the POP doesn't get that same look.
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No, he is not suppose to be anyone besides Aokiji. Yes, Oda got his inspiration from an actor, but that's not who Aokiji is. Aokiji is Aokiji. Oda draws him a certain way, and I too feel the POP doesn't get that same look.
Yeah. That's essentially what I meant. Oda's characters are notoriously cartoonish, and despite the inspiration, I feel the sculptor of this figure made him look too "real" (too Asian, even).
But the hair… if it's solid black in the manga and anime, then who's to say what it's "supposed" to look like? It just seems a bit off here.
And I'm not trying to start an argument. Just stating an opinion. If you like the figure, by all means buy it and support Megahouse so that they can make more (can't wait for Kaku, Kidd, and Kizaru).
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Mihawk is officially my next POP purchase. Those photos made me JIZZ IN MY PANTS.
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^ That's not a very nice visual. x.x
I just ordered my first P.O.P. and as it's also my very first purchase online…I hope that no major problems occur. D=
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^ That's not a very nice visual. x.x
I just ordered my first P.O.P. and as it's also my very first purchase online…I hope that no major problems occur. D=
That visual was just a failed reference to an SNL digital short…. lol.
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Alright, for all whiners:
Do you realize that you do this every time before a release? Almost always, they never look like the pre models anyway, so don't sweat the small details.
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t see any difference between promo models for POPs or DX figures and the figures I owe. If talking about DX Nami and Luffy then for me the drawing for Luffy looked tons better then the figure and the figure for Nami was better then the drawing. I guess for each his own, but I really haven
t ever noticed ANY difference between promo photos and the actually sold figures. The quality of a photo is what matters.
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Hmmmm new versions already for Banpresto boats…I quess i'll wait a little longer before ordering Going Merry.
Dont want two boats again. >_<.Nice to see Close-ups from the New POP. They look great. First look i thought also.. something is not right with
Aokiji face...but it doesnt look ugly.I asked before, but can remember having a answers for it. I know they are prize items,
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More photos from Jump Festa. Aokiji and Mihawk in May 2009:
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Gosh, it really makes me wanna puke when I see that they could do Kuzan in scale but didn't do the same with Brook. He're hoping they'd do a second version of Brook which will be about the same size as Kuzan.
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Hmm… I wonder what the odds are that Aokiji's ice is detachable (akin to Ace's fire sleeve). Maybe they'll also give him an interchangeable "normal" hand?
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Gosh, it really makes me wanna puke when I see that they could do Kuzan in scale but didn't do the same with Brook. He're hoping they'd do a second version of Brook which will be about the same size as Kuzan.
Well, to be perfectly fair, he is FAR from being on scale. Aokiji is HUUUGE. Luffy's head comes to his waist from what I recall. Nami (who he's standing next to) is about the size, if not slightly shorter than Luffy, and she's even hunched over a bit there. Pretty much none of the POPS (except maybe Chopper) are in scale. They may look like it, but they aren't.
Point is, they did go the extra mile to make Aokiji taller, but we're gonna pay the price for it, literally. Would it have been cool if Brook was the same? Yes. Would a lot of us be able to afford him if so was the case? Probably not. I very much want Aokiji… but I know unless I get a job soon (which I'm trying to do, damn this economy) then it wont happen.
@CCC: Of course it's detachable.
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Well, to be perfectly fair, he is FAR from being on scale. Aokiji is HUUUGE. Luffy's head comes to his waist from what I recall. Nami (who he's standing next to) is about the size, if not slightly shorter than Luffy, and she's even hunched over a bit there. Pretty much none of the POPS (except maybe Chopper) are in scale. They may look like it, but they aren't.
I'm aware that they are not 100% in scale but the general size difference comes across which is important to me. I pretty much love group shots of the Strawhats where the extreme size differnces of Chopper, Franky and Brook in comparison to the other characters gives you a nice panorama of diversitiy (in terms of size) and this simply doesn't get across with the POPs (except with Chopper) which destroys the flair for me.
Point is, they did go the extra mile to make Aokiji taller, but we're gonna pay the price for it, literally. Would it have been cool if Brook was the same? Yes. Would a lot of us be able to afford him if so was the case? Probably not. I very much want Aokiji… but I know unless I get a job soon (which I'm trying to do, damn this economy) then it wont happen.
I see what you're saying but marketing-wise that's even more retarded because they are expect the fan to pay more money for a character who's not even part of the main cast. That would be more of an owngoal then if they would do it with Brook. I can only hope that Kuzan sells well so that might think, doing resized versions of Brook and Franky would be a profitable idea.
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Well, yesterday I got in and had the Unlimited Cruise set waiting for me. Opened the set up to find instead of Zoro I got the Alt 'White' Robin so I'm happy about that. Today my TB gashapon set arrived too so double yay. I never realised how evil the Robin in that set looked XD
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I see what you're saying but marketing-wise that's even more retarded because they are expect the fan to pay more money for a character who's not even part of the main cast. That would be more of an owngoal then if they would do it with Brook. I can only hope that Kuzan sells well so that might think, doing resized versions of Brook and Franky would be a profitable idea.
It's quite common with statues of any kind to have lower (and more expensive) runs of niche characters, then if they're more popular than expected, they can re-run it with the same mold or a slightly altered mold.
I've never really collected gashapon and the like, are there any North American or asian sites that sell full, non-bootleg sets, instead of individual/cases of the blind boxes?
If there's no sites, it'd be nice to use the collective knowledge of this thread to compile a list of the legit Ebay sellers (and even a seperate list of the bootleg ones for those that don't mind that). I imagine it'd be a pretty useful resource.
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It's quite common with statues of any kind to have lower (and more expensive) runs of niche characters, then if they're more popular than expected, they can re-run it with the same mold or a slightly altered mold.
Really, it's common? Actually the way you put it, it even makes sense now that I think about it that way. I stand corrected.
Still hope/dream for a Brook figure of Kuzan size aswell for a taller Franky.
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My Zoro was shipped out 24 days ago, and it still isn't here… Brook's also taking awhile. I want to blame it on the holidays or something, but I hope nothing's happened to them.
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the merry is out on hlj, but discontinued, i think i will probably receive in few days the payment notification!
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I just hope we get Crocodile and Enel next. I will produce cream.
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As awesome as Shichibukai POPs would be, Moria, Blackbeard and Kuma are all so huge that it probably wouldn't work unless they rescaled them.
Realistically I'm hoping for an Enel, Buggy or Kidd POP myself.
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Aokiji is not one….........Aokiji and Mihawk are rated very high. I really dont think
we get all the Shichibukai.
Crododile would be awesome. They do Mr 2, Vivi even Carue give me Crocodile!!Only with every new release iam a little worried about gettting pop from really older characters.
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I love little luffy eating XD
Great figures, mucho bueno!
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Though my predicion was 100% accurate you guys still don
t seem to get that the POPs we get are based on the popularity poll… We
re defenetly getting Kidd, Law and Rayleigh, its only a matter of time. If they choose to do girls it
s going to be Bonney or Perona. Buggy and Enel are next ones after theese guys so they are possible too. Crocodile and other Shichibukais are not.
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I still think we are more likely to see Heavy Point before most of them. Personally I just want a new female POP. We haven't had a new one since Bellemere and Nami way back in 2005 (excluding reissues and milds)
Kidd, Rayleigh etc probably need to be at least introduced properlly in the anime so it may be another year before them, giving a handful of releases beforehand (that is if we assume they do the same as last year and release two every month or so.) I wouldn't be suprised if we saw a Mugiwara or two during the year aswell.
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Chopper already has 3 POPs, I don`t see how he needs another one.